Every geek loves a great UFO gadget, and while we are personally skeptical that if aliens managed to conquer space-time and travel thousands of light years to visit us they’d spend their time gravitationally sucking rednecks and cows up into the mothership, we still can’t help but be gobsmacked by the laborious attention to detail that Jason Dietz imbued into these fantastic, five-foot homemade UFO abduction sculptures.

Each Sculptures is five feet and five inches tall and is made out of recycle glass tubes, light diffusers and acrylic rings. They use a series of different lights including CFLS, LEDs and halogens to attain that extraterrestrial glow.

A good friend of mine is a fly-fisherman. While I don't fish, I have spent time with him on trips. It struck me as I was taking in the scenery and looking into the water for fish - much the same way as the bear in the painting-that even in a vast landscape our point of attention can become very focused on the smallest of details. This large print captures both the vastness of a mountain landscape and the intimacy of a particular moment.

This piece presents three essential states of energy: the Latent, Active and Emerging. Here is the macrocosm of planetary energy conveyed in all its weight and grandeur in microcosm. Humankind is seen as the summary of earthly creative forces. Cataclasis challenges us to recognize the universal commonality of creation and existence.

The subtitle is “Orogenesis” which is the scientific term for the geological process which results in the formation of mountains. The forces are represented as two wrestling titans engaged in a timeless and noble conflict. This is the struggle of fulfillment of their essential function and destiny.